Wild bumblebees serve as key hosts for acute bee paralysis virus. While the virus appears to cause little harm to bumblebees, ...

After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to ...

ON HOW THIS COULD IMPACT MORE THAN BEES. MIKE: IT’S NOT EVERYDAY THAT YOU HEAR ABOUT INSECTS ON THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT, BUT THAT’S WHAT THE GAME COMMISSION IS GOING TO CONSIDER ONE WEEK FROM TODAY ...

The American bumblebee could soon be declared an endangered species, according to federal officials. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) said in a proposed rule that petitions to list the ...

A new study offers clues as to how the insects survive flooding as they emerge from a hibernation-like phase every winter.

Spring flooding was supposed to be a death sentence for them. Buried underground, dormant, with no way to surface, bumble bee ...

A yellow-faced bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii) approaching a California poppy. UC Davis entomologists are trying to learn all they can about how colonies of these pollinators respond to changes in the ...